Solo/collective concert
02/06/2018, URBINO (ITA) Jazz club Urbino Classical contemporary accordion concert with the “Italian accordion academy“: Works by Lebic, Mantovani, trad. Klezmer
Solo/Duo Multiple choice
28/01/2018, OOSTERZELE (WV) (BEL) Ridderzaalconcert. 11u00, GC De Kluize Oosterzele (info en tickets: www.gcdekluize.be). Works for accordion solo and duo from Baroque to Contemporary music, with Luca Pignata and Barbara Ardenois. Claudio Jacomucci (1975, ITA): Wonderlands (2004), solo (Luca Pignata) E.Grieg (1843-1907, NOR): Holberg Suite op.40 (Gavotte, Rigaudon) Maurice Ravel (1875-1937, FRA): Pavane pour une infante défunte
La vita è bella. Concerto di fisarmonica classica in memoria della Shoah
26/01/2018, AMSTERDAM (NED) Italiaanse Cultuurinstituut Amsterdam 20h30, Nieuwe Uilenburgerstraat 116 – 1011 LX Amsterdam | 020 – 845 33 45 Classical contemporary accordion concert with the “Italian accordion academy“: “La vita è bella. Concerto di fisarmonica classica in memoria della Shoah”. Works by Ligeti, Barber, Gershwin, Kurtag, Steve Reich, Messiaen, trad. Klezmer
Solo/Duo Multiple Choice
16/12/2017, DE PANNE (WV) (BEL) Concert in the church of De Panne (Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk, Zeelaan 129), 20u Works for accordion solo and duo from Baroque to Contemporary music, with Luca Pignata and Barbara Ardenois. W. A. Mozart – Ave VerumE. Grieg – Holberg Suite op.40 (Gavotte, Rigaudon)A. Vivaldi – Mottetto Nulla in mondo Pax SinceraM. Pagliarani – Apparizione di Franz
Solo/Duo Multiple choice
05/12/2017, (BEL) Private concert with Luca Pignata and Barbara Ardenois (acc). E.Grieg – Holberg Suite op.40 (Gavotte, Rigaudon) Maurice Ravel – Pavane pour une infante défunte (1899) M. Mussorsky – uit de “Schilderijen van een tentoonstelling” (Promenade – Gnomus – Promenade – Il vecchio castello – Promenade – Bydło) Egberto Gismonti – Loro Astor Piazzolla – Tanti
KunstCertWeek – Concert of the teachers at the Music Academy of Waregem
25/10/2017, WAREGEM (OV) (BEL) Muziekacademie Waregem, 19u30 KunstCertWeek – Concert of the teachers at the Music Academy of Waregem. Music by T. L. De Victoria, Krzysztof Olczak. More info Addres: Olmstraat 25, Waregem (OV) – Oblatenauditorium
Solo performance/Festival TalKlang (ITA)
30/09/2017-01/10/2017, SAND IN TAUFERS (BZ) (ITA) TalKlang festival: music, yoga, excursions in the valley. Music by Bach, Tomás Luis de Victoria, Purcell e John Cage. Program: Deutsch: 2017talklang_broschuere_de_WEB, Italiano: Talklang_broschuere_it_WEB 2017 For reservations: +39 0474 678076 | info@taufers.com
Solo/Duo concert
17/04/2017, KORTRIJK (OV) (BEL) Begijnhof Kortrijk. Works for accordion solo and duo by E. Grieg, S. Barber, I. Stravinsky, C. Jacomucci, E. Gismonti, A. Nordheim, G. de Machaut. With Luca Pignata (acc), Barbara Ardenois (acc). Begijnhofstraat 2, 8500 Kortrijk | 0473 86 26 88 | begijnhof@ocmwkortrijk.be
Dag van de Waardigheid with Shalan Alhamwy (violin)
19/03/2017, BRUXELLES (BEL) – BOZAR De Dag van de Waardigheid is een burgerinitiatief van Samira Bendadi (Journaliste MO* Magazine) en Mohamed Ikoubaân (directeur Moussem Nomadisch Kunstencentrum). Duo Luca Pignata (acc) with Shalam Alhamwy (violin). Music by Shalan Alhamwy, Piazzolla, Luiz Bonfa, Anouar Brahem. Free entrance. Info and tickets
Accordion Workshop/Seminar – De Accordeon van Bal tot Bach
16/01/2017, INGELMUNSTER (BEL) Ingelmunster – Vl@s, 14:30 Ontmoetingscentrum, Bollewerpstraat 3, 8770 Ingelmunster Info: werner.blondeel@skynet.be With Barbara Ardenois, Luca Pignata History and organology of the accordeon, from the baroque to the contemporary music passing through the folk genres, the figure of Mogens Ellegaard, the relative instruments, the production of the sound. Solo/duo performance; music by Piazzolla, Bach, Gismonti, Zorn, Grieg
Concert of the teachers of the Music Academy of Waregem
27/10/2016, WAREGEM (OV) (BEL) Muziekacademie Waregem, 19u30 KunstCertWeek – Concert of the teachers at the Music Academy of Waregem. Music by C. Jacomucci, I. Volante (with clarinetist Joos Creteur). More info, program Addres: Olmstraat 25, Waregem (OV) – Oblatenauditorium
Solo/Duo Concert @Conservatorium Kortrijk + Duobaan
23/10/2016, KORTRIJK (OV) (BEL) Conservatorium Kortrijk – 11u Matineeconcert with Duobaan and Luca Pignata. Works for accordion solo and duo by E. Grieg, C. Jacomucci, E. Gismonti, M. Pagliarani, Y. Takahashi, A. Nordheim. With Luca Pignata (acc), Barbara Ardenois (acc) and Anneleen de Causmaecker (visual art). Info Legato Kortrijk
Music walk – concert
02/07/2016, ASTENE – DEINZE (BEL) Loreleie: muziekwandeling. Music walk along de old Leie river with three concerts in suggestive locations with Luca Pignata, Duobaan (Barbara Ardenois – accordionist, Anneleen de Causmaecker, visual artist), Marijke Verlinden (cello). Music by Gismonti, Jacomucci, Bach, Lundquist. More information on loreleie Reservation: info@lucapignata.com
Accordion Workshop/Seminar – De Accordeon van Bal tot Bach
19/01/2016, AVELGEM (BEL) Avelgem Scheldeland – Vl@s, 14:00 Het Ganzenhof, Educatieve Bioboerderij – Bosstraat 2, 8580 Avelgem Info: Dierk Dedeyne, 0476-950360, dedeyne.dierk@skynet.be With Barbara Ardenois, Luca Pignata History and organology of the accordeon, from the baroque to the contemporary music passing through the folk genres, the figure of Mogens Ellegaard, the relative instruments, the production of the sound. Solo/duo
Solo/duo concert
26-27/11/2015, UTRECHT (NED) Buma Classical festival – Stukaklassiek With Luca Pignata and Barbara Ardenois (acc.) – Multiple choice Music by Grieg, Pagliarani, Vivaldi, Ravel, Gismonti, Sørensen, De Machaut. foto
Solo/duo concert
15/11/2015, KASTER (ANZEGEM) (BEL) With Luca Pignata and Barbara Ardenois (acc.) Music by Grieg, Pagliarani, Vivaldi, Ravel, Gismonti, Sørensen, De Machaut. info@lucapignata.com
Arne Nordheim (1931-2010, NOR): Flashing
Nordheim’s music is meant to be very playful. His Flashing, originally the cadenza of his concerto for accordion and orchestra (Spur), became eventually his most famous work for accordion. The whole composition is based on a very frisky idea: the bouncing of a little ball. Nordheim discovered the stereophonic character of the accordion, from whose
Salvatore Sciarrino (*1947, ITA): Vagabonde blu (1998)
A very important page of the contemporary accordion literature, “Vagabonde blu” is a mirror of the aesthetics of the famous Italian composer: research of the noise brought to an extreme sensitiveness, dynamics rarely louder than a “piano”. It shows the physicality of the accordion as an instrument that breath like a lung, sighs and blow
I. Stravinsky (1882-1971, RUS): The Rite of the Spring (Dance of the Young Girls)
One of the most spectacular pages written by the Russian composer, characterized by a repetitive stamping bitonal chords combination, which Stravinsky considered the focal point of the entire work. The rhythm of the stamping is disturbed by Stravinsky’s constant shifting of the accent, on and off the beat, before the dance ends in a collapse,
Chris Gendall (*1980, ZEL): Incident, Opera in one act (2012-14)
Synopsis: In 1943, 48 Japanese Prisoners of War were killed in Featherston, New Zealand, after an incident from cross-cultural confusion and miscommunication. All events surrounding the incident were kept secret until well after the war had finished: the Prisoner-of-War camp’s existence was hidden from the New Zealand public, and the official military report on the